Editor's Note: This document is a letter, dated September 16, 1969, sent to (and the handwritten reply received from) the West Carroll County (Louisiana) Sheriff's Office by Bernard Fensterwald, Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, regarding John David Hurt. This letter follows up some important leads provided by an investigator's letter to Fensterwald summarizing his phone call to John Hurt and providing a biographical outline of Hurt, which had been received just prior to this letter being written. -- G.Proctor

United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on
Administrative Practice and Procedure
Washington, D.C. 20510

September 16, 1968

The Sheriff
West Carroll County
Oakgrove, Louisiana

Dear Sheriff:

Could you check your records for the fall of 1963 and see if you have any arrest record for a John Hurt whose residence is normally Raleigh, North Carolina. If so, could you supply me with the details of the disposition of his case. Also, could you check and see if, at the same time, there was also in jail either Mexican or Mexican-American named Gonzalez; unfortunately, I have no further identification of him.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

Bernard Fensterwald, Jr.
Chief Counsel

Editor's note: The following is the reply, handwritten on the original letter, which was returned to Fensterwald.

We have made a thorough check on the above mentioned subjects and have found no record on either.

Iris Mathews
Office Deputy
West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Dept.

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